Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Study for Storm Over Irondale

1920

Conté crayon on paper

13 x 17 ¼ inches

Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006

Emphasize the large masses of emotional design & let all additional detail take its place within & be subordinate to it—

Looms powerfully forward —

A red fester on the face of the earth

Part of

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Storm Over Irondale; cardboard folder, 20 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006